Cooke Optics, a privately owned company headquartered in the UK, was founded in 1893 and employs approximately 150 individuals. It reported $29.4M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in content acquisition, functioning as a manufacturer of cinematography lenses and optics for the motion picture, television, and advertising industries. It offers a full range of primes and zooms for 35mm, digital, and Super 16mm photography, in addition to a range of large format stills lenses. Cooke Optics products are known for their sharp, subtle, smooth rendering, which provides dimensionality and high contrast.
Cooke Optics recognized and celebrated the achievements of women in film and television on March 9, 2026, following International Women's Day. This tribute came after the company hosted an event on March 5, 2026, at Cooke London, where a panel of female cinematographers discussed authorship, leadership, filmmaking from a female perspective, and necessary industry shifts. Earlier, on February 11, 2026, Cooke partnered with EZtrack to introduce a lens metadata workflow designed for filmmakers and DOPs, enabling post-production to commence live during shooting, with the technology showcased in the forthcoming film *Comandante*. Previously, on December 17, 2025, product photographer Phil Sills utilized the Cooke SP3 50mm lens for an unconventional still life series, exploring its distinctive rendering of light and texture.
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Cooke Optics offers products in the media tech industry. Cooke Optics's product portfolio comprises of content acquisition.
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Cooke Optics's revenues were less than $50M in 2024. All the revenue comes from camera lenses.
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